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The poetical works of John and Charles Wesley

Wesley, Charles (1707-1788)

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VOLUME I.
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VOLUME II.
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VOLUME III.
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VOLUME IV.
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HYMNS FOR TIMES OF Trouble and Persecution.
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HYMNS IN TIME OF PERSECUTION.
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HYMNS TO BE SUNG IN A TUMULT.
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HYMNS FOR TIMES OF TROUBLE, For the YEAR 1745.
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HYMNS FOR Times of Trouble.
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HYMNS FOR THE Public Thanksgiving-Day, October 9, 1746.
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HYMNS FOR THE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD.
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HYMNS FOR OUR Lord's Resurrection.
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HYMNS FOR Ascension-Day.
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HYMNS OF Petition and Thanksgiving FOR THE PROMISE OF THE FATHER.
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HYMNS FOR THOSE THAT SEEK AND THOSE THAT HAVE REDEMPTION IN THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST.
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HYMNS AND SACRED POEMS. IN TWO VOLUMES.
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Vol. I.
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PART I.
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I. THE TWENTY-SIXTH CHAPTER OF ISAIAH.
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II. ISAIAH XXVII. 1–6, &c.
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III. THE FORTY-FOURTH CHAPTER OF ISAIAH.
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IV. THE FIFTY-FIRST CHAPTER OF ISAIAH.
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V. THE SIXTY-FIRST CHAPTER OF ISAIAH.
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VI. THE SIXTY-SECOND CHAPTER OF ISAIAH.
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VII. AN HYMN FOR SERIOUSNESS.
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VIII. THE BEATITUDES.
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[FOR ONE CONVINCED OF UNBELIEF.]
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[DESIRING TO LOVE.]
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XXV. FOR A DYING UNCONVERTED SINNER.
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XXVI. ANOTHER.
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XXVII. FOR A SICK FRIEND IN DARKNESS.
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XXVIII. ANOTHER.
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[FOR ONE IN DOUBT.]
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[PENITENTIAL HYMN.]
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XLII. INVITATION TO SINNERS.
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[JESUS CHRIST, THE SAME YESTERDAY, TO-DAY, AND FOR EVER.]
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XLIII. JESUS CHRIST, THE SAME YESTERDAY, TO-DAY, AND FOR EVER.—[Heb. xiii. 8.]
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XLIV. THE SAME.
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XLV. THE SAME.
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XLVI. THE SAME.
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[WAITING FOR REDEMPTION.]
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[TO ONE FALLEN FROM GRACE.]
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[AFTER A RECOVERY.]
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XCV. THE BLOODY ISSUE CURED.
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XCVI. THE TEMPEST.
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XCVII. GLORIA PATRI.
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XCVIII. ABBA FATHER!
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XCIX. FOR CONDEMNED MALEFACTORS.
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[IN TEMPTATION.]
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VOLUME V.
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VOLUME VI.
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VOLUME VII.
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VOLUME VIII.
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VOLUME IX.
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VOLUME X.
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VOLUME XI.
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VOLUME XII.
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VOLUME XIII.

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LXXVIII. THE SAME.

Hymn 28.

[O that I could repent]

O that I could repent,
With all my idols part,
And to Thy gracious eye present
An humble contrite heart!
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An heart with grief oppress'd
At having grieved my God,
A troubled heart that cannot rest
Till sprinkled with Thy blood!
Jesu, on me bestow
The penitent desire,
With true sincerity of woe,
My aching breast inspire;
With softening pity look,
And melt my hardness down,
Strike with Thy love's effectual stroke,
And break this heart of stone.
O for Thy glorious name
My flinty bosom move,
And let me feel my load of shame,
And groan my want of love:
Low in the deepest deep
My humbled spirit lay,
And give me there to cry, and weep
My pensive life away.
Absorb'd in ceaseless woe,
No interval I crave,
But softly all my days to go,
And mourning to the grave;
Till all my pains are past,
And Thou my soul require:—
But let me see Thy face at last,
And in Thy arms expire.
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